Why We’re Crushing on Claude Cormier’s Love Park

Landscape architectClaude Cormier + Associés’ competition-winning scheme for York Street Park – a new green space set to replace a spiral Gardiner Expressway off-ramp – includes an illuminated heart suspended high above the common. Hence its informal name, Love Park.

Following in the paw prints of Berczy Park, the Montreal firm has devised a series of whimsical follies reflective of a new theme: love. Think heart-shaped reflecting pool and a mirrored stainless-steel arcade with a crimson centre.

Originally published in our Designer of the Year 2019 issue as Heart Over Heels.